File synchronization plugin idea

[Nicolas Fella]

Hi,

file syncing is something that has been requested several times and it
would allow some nice use cases. There is some old work on it on the
desktop side (https://cgit.kde.org/kdeconnect-kde.git/log/?h=filesync) but
there is no code for Android yet. I also had the idea of leveraging the
SFTP plugin for it, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea since it's a bit
unstable.

If you have some PoC code please share it with us so we can discuss it
further.

Cheers

Nico


On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 16:04 Viktor Porvaznik <viktor.porvaznik at gmail.com
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using kdeconnect on openSUSE and find it very useful app. I have
> following two use cases that I have solved but I was wondering about more
> elegant solution (and if it would be worth it).
>
> First I have an encrypted pw safe data (and possibly some other private
> data) that I have on my phone, desktop, laptop. Once in a while when I
> create new entry or edit an existing one I update the pw safe db and I need
> to copy that manually between all devices. Depending on a frequency that
> might be quite often. For security reasons I dont use cloud and everything
> is offline only copied over USB or private wifi. To facilitate I was
> thinking to make shell scripts that will do the job and use it trough
> execute command plugin but I find that very specific to the problem.
>
> Second use case would be photos. I am often taking photos (even have
> private cloud backup) but I would like to have all photos downloaded /
> synchronized to set folder on my pc, and even possibly to execute some post
> copy - processing shell scripts once all photos are downloaded e.g.
> conversion of photos, resize, upload to gallery.
>
> I was thinking to write stuff just for myself (or just keep it as shell
> scripts) but then I was wondering whether it would be maybe a good idea to
> make it more generic? I was considering to implement it a plugin. The issue
> is that tt would be depending on sftp plugin which creates dependency not
> only on a base app.
>
> I would have an initial idea (even have a crude prototype) and I have some
> more technical questions if it turns out to be a good idea. I am new to
> D-Bus stuff and I find it pretty interesting, so please any comments are
> welcome.
>
> Thank you,
> BR,
> Viktor
>
>
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